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For those of you who are long time Mom Camp followers you may recall that Cinco and The Princess rebelled against Mom Camp in 2016 over what historians have termed — The TITANIC INCIDENT.

New followers may ask, what is The TITANIC INCIDENT? Well on this day two years ago we started what was supposed to be a three day session on learning about the Titanic. We only got to TWO DAYS…

Everything was going great. We made a mini sinking paper Titanic, The Princess colored in paper dolls and outfits that matched the historical period, Cinco did a worksheet learning about primary sources related to the Titanic.

And then… we hit an iceberg!

I foolishly showed them the James Cameron movie, TITANIC! All of a sudden, the kiddos were crying and going on and on about what a depressing film it was. They would NOT stop complaining about it and said I was terrible for showing them the movie.

Of course, I didn’t let this stop me. I pressed on with day two. We did a packet on the Titanic and made our own candy portholes! Hello, who doesn’t like eating gummy octopus and swedish fish? Mind you, these were underwater porthole as the ship did SINK. (Click here for directions on making your own gummy porthole.)

But No… this was not good enough. Cinco and The Princess would NOT stop talking about how horrible the movie had been and the simply refused to carry on with day three. I planned to take them to the local Titanic exhibit in Las Vegas. But they kept protesting that they NO intention of looking at things that belonged to DEAD PEOPLE.

After that Mom kinda hit the rocks…. In fact it was so, decimated that we didn’t even blog about it in 2017. And, it is the reason the kids also have to attend “regular camp”.

Which is a LONG way of saying that while The Princess was attending Girl Scouts Day Camp, she learned to cook stir-fry. And, so Mom Camp Day 9 is all about cooking,
We started by shopping at ol’ Trader Joe’s (broccoli, peas, carrots, rice…). At home, I acted as assistant and The Princess gave plenty of orders.

Cinco decided that in order for it to be a real ‘celebration’ we needed some starters. (Side note, is Cinco British or something now? Starters? On this side of the pond we call them appetizers…) He decided we needed add ramen soup.

The meal went off and The Princess was very proud of her accomplishments.

For the past two years I intended to do a few Titanic themed Mom Camp Days. And, every year we get to the end of the summer and it hasn’t happened. Well, this is the YEAR people!!!

The kids on the other hand are less than enthusiastic about this little project. We started off by watching a documentary on the Titanic. From the start, no one was really interested in the show, including The Captain. The kids rebelled saying it was very boring and I shot back that it was educational and that we are doing our Titanic Days!!!!! Cinco started saying the ship took 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink and that was all he needed to know about the event. LOL.

Not the best start to Titanic Day. However, once I explained we were going to go to the Titanic museum, watch the James Cameron movie, make a mini-Titanic and do some science experiments they seems to be a bit happier about the experience.

Cinco started the day by making a mini Titanic paper craft.

The Princess created paper dolls with outfits related to the time period. Technically, the outfits are from the Edwardian 1900s. But between 1900 and 1912 the fashion didn’t change too much. So I went ahead and used them anyway.

They also colored images of the Titanic sinking that I printed out from Activity Village. Download the picture here. Activity Village also had a fun worksheet that asked the kids what they would pack if they were sailing on the Titanic.

We ended the day with popcorn and the movie,Titanic . Cinco and the Princess got a hand me down electronic keyboard and tortured The Captain and me with a Casio version of Celine Dion’s My Heart will Go On for years! When Cinco finally heard it as the theme from the movie he asked if that was the original version. How funny…

Although they have seen plenty of other PG-13 movies, this one turned out to be a mistake. Both kids started crying about 2/3rds of the way through the movie. Too depressing I guess.